Jose Gonzalo Escobar

Jose Gonzalo Escobar (1892-1969) was a Major-General of the Mexican Army who led a failed 1929 uprising against President Plutarco Elias Calles.

Biography
Jose Gonzalo Escobar was born in 1892 in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico. In 1913, he joined the army of Venustiano Carranza during the Mexican Revolution and fought in the campaigns against Pancho Villa from 1914 to 1915, leading the brave cavalry charge against Villa at Juarez in 1919. He was brave, young, and dashing, and he was one of the most popular officers of the Mexican Army during the revolution. In 1924, he put down Adolfo de la Huerta's uprising, but he led a rebellion against the anti-Catholic president Plutarco Elias Calles in 1929 that ended in disaster. Escobar fled to the United States, and he returned to Mexico in 1942 by way of El Paso, Texas during World War II. He died in Mexico City in 1969, having been promoted to Major-General in 1952.